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シドニアの騎士 [Sidonia no Kishi] #6
Knights of Sidonia Master Edition, Vol. 6
One of the manga world's most intriguing artist returns with a science-fiction tour de force which combines post apocolyptic action, modern sci-fi video game tropes and a traditional Japanese aesthetic in The Knights of Sidonia.
Knights of Sidonia has been complied into a Master Edition featuring larger print, colored inserts and omibused volumes. Each Master's Edition volume compiles 2.5 volumes of the original Knights of Sidonia volumes.
Knights of Sidonia has been complied into a Master Edition featuring larger print, colored inserts and omibused volumes. Each Master's Edition volume compiles 2.5 volumes of the original Knights of Sidonia volumes.
383 pages, Paperback
First published July 21, 2020
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About the author
Tsutomu Nihei
214 books746 followersSee also 弐瓶 勉.
Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶 勉 Nihei Tsutomu, born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop and in Italy by Panini Comics.
At first he studied architecture and later it is shown up in his manga works with drawing huge structures. This became one of his general theme that makes his manga unique. His works are usually in black and white. He is also an avid fan of the video game series Halo, as he mentions in his commentary section in the Halo Graphic Novel.
Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_...
Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶 勉 Nihei Tsutomu, born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop and in Italy by Panini Comics.
At first he studied architecture and later it is shown up in his manga works with drawing huge structures. This became one of his general theme that makes his manga unique. His works are usually in black and white. He is also an avid fan of the video game series Halo, as he mentions in his commentary section in the Halo Graphic Novel.
Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_...
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October 26, 2025
I wish these editions were more in line with a specific amount of original mangas. The areas they end and begin feel so random and I don't get a sense of how the story progressed as it was published. Even just letting me know where the mangas transitioned from one to the next would be appreciated. Overall the story has some bumpy rides, and some plots are not progressing in directions that I hoped. There's so many unanswered questions and open plot threads while we are here and so close to the end, I have no idea how issue seven is going to go. This has been a very interesting story so far though.
October 14, 2023
This review and rating is for the Master Edition, volumes 1-6.
Knights of Sidonia is a Japanese science fiction franchise that began as a comic book (manga) and then was adapted into an animated series (anime). The comic book was published in the US from 2013 to 2016 as a series of 15 volumes. This Master Edition republishes those 15 in a condensed, larger print format. Each Master Edition = 2.5 volumes of the original, so Master Edition volume 6 should contain volumes 11-13.5 of the original run.
My 46 year old eyes appreciate the larger format. It's much easier to understand what's happening.
Knights of Sidonia tells the story of Nagate Tanikaze and seed ship Sidonia. Some time prior to the start of the story, an alien lifeform called "gauna" destroyed the Earth. Generation/ "seed" ships containing all of the remaining humans scattered in all directions. Each ship contains the necessary elements to colonize a new planet and restart the human civilization.
By the start of the story. the Sidonia has lost contact with all the other seed ships and it is commonly believed that they are the last. Sidonia now fights a war of attrition against pursuing gauna.
Will the Sidonia survive to find a new planet? Read the series.
Tanikaze was raised in a remote part of the ship by his grandfather. In his late teens, he stumbles into contact with the crew while searching for food. Tanikaze immediately becomes an expert combat pilot and saves the Sidonia from certain doom.
How is Tanikaze so skilled? And why and how does he heal so quickly? Read the series.
The gauna constantly adapt to Sidonia's defensive strategies. No one- save for one scientist executed for treason- seems to understand the gauna.
What are the gauna and why won't they leave the Sidonia alone? And what about that treasonous scientist? Is he really dead? Read the series.
I loved the first four volumes of the Master Edition because they build a solid sci-fi mystery from the elements described above. Volumes five and six...
1) introduce a meandering side story that pads out the plot big-time and
2) spend the rest of the time focusing on a romantic harem type scenario.
For those who don't know, "harem" in anime refers to a main character- male, in this case- pursued by a cast of romantic partners. Most of the time it's a male pursued by a cadre of women. The male in anime romantic-harem stories is usually clueless and indecisive, and both are true for Tanikaze. Knights of Sidonia alters the formula a bit by introducing a neutral-gender character. Izana is neither male nor female, and for much of volumes one through four, is the main romantic foil for Tanikaze. In volume five a big part of that padded out side-story involves Tanikaze rescuing a highly attractive robot-woman, who then immediately becomes a part of the harem.
Midway through volume six the author resumes the sci-fi mystery, but it feels like a rushed afterthought. Answers to some of the big mysteries are tossed out in a page or two, and then the final build to the big apocalyptic concluding battle begins.
I watched the anime adaptation of Knights back in 2014 or so when it was on netflix. That anime series ended on a cliffhanger, and while I expected the manga to have some differences, I also expected for the manga to give some answers.
It gave some- but some of the biggest are either a) not answered or b) answered in volume seven. I am severely annoyed that much of volumes five and six were spent on filler material, much of it romance.
I'm also annoyed that the netflix anime is no longer on netflix, and that the concluding movie is only available on a streaming service I don't have. I wish netflix had stepped up to actually finish one of its numerous incomplete series, and that they'd retained the streaming rights.
My final annoyance is with the Madison Public Library system. They have volumes one through six, but not seven. If I want to read the conclusion to the manga I've got to shell out $30+ dollars for the book. Oh well.
I recommend the series, though. The mystery plot in volumes one through four is really well done. The art is solid. The romantic stuff isn't my thing, but you can skim those pages.
Knights of Sidonia is a Japanese science fiction franchise that began as a comic book (manga) and then was adapted into an animated series (anime). The comic book was published in the US from 2013 to 2016 as a series of 15 volumes. This Master Edition republishes those 15 in a condensed, larger print format. Each Master Edition = 2.5 volumes of the original, so Master Edition volume 6 should contain volumes 11-13.5 of the original run.
My 46 year old eyes appreciate the larger format. It's much easier to understand what's happening.
Knights of Sidonia tells the story of Nagate Tanikaze and seed ship Sidonia. Some time prior to the start of the story, an alien lifeform called "gauna" destroyed the Earth. Generation/ "seed" ships containing all of the remaining humans scattered in all directions. Each ship contains the necessary elements to colonize a new planet and restart the human civilization.
By the start of the story. the Sidonia has lost contact with all the other seed ships and it is commonly believed that they are the last. Sidonia now fights a war of attrition against pursuing gauna.
Will the Sidonia survive to find a new planet? Read the series.
Tanikaze was raised in a remote part of the ship by his grandfather. In his late teens, he stumbles into contact with the crew while searching for food. Tanikaze immediately becomes an expert combat pilot and saves the Sidonia from certain doom.
How is Tanikaze so skilled? And why and how does he heal so quickly? Read the series.
The gauna constantly adapt to Sidonia's defensive strategies. No one- save for one scientist executed for treason- seems to understand the gauna.
What are the gauna and why won't they leave the Sidonia alone? And what about that treasonous scientist? Is he really dead? Read the series.
I loved the first four volumes of the Master Edition because they build a solid sci-fi mystery from the elements described above. Volumes five and six...
1) introduce a meandering side story that pads out the plot big-time and
2) spend the rest of the time focusing on a romantic harem type scenario.
For those who don't know, "harem" in anime refers to a main character- male, in this case- pursued by a cast of romantic partners. Most of the time it's a male pursued by a cadre of women. The male in anime romantic-harem stories is usually clueless and indecisive, and both are true for Tanikaze. Knights of Sidonia alters the formula a bit by introducing a neutral-gender character. Izana is neither male nor female, and for much of volumes one through four, is the main romantic foil for Tanikaze. In volume five a big part of that padded out side-story involves Tanikaze rescuing a highly attractive robot-woman, who then immediately becomes a part of the harem.
Midway through volume six the author resumes the sci-fi mystery, but it feels like a rushed afterthought. Answers to some of the big mysteries are tossed out in a page or two, and then the final build to the big apocalyptic concluding battle begins.
I watched the anime adaptation of Knights back in 2014 or so when it was on netflix. That anime series ended on a cliffhanger, and while I expected the manga to have some differences, I also expected for the manga to give some answers.
It gave some- but some of the biggest are either a) not answered or b) answered in volume seven. I am severely annoyed that much of volumes five and six were spent on filler material, much of it romance.
I'm also annoyed that the netflix anime is no longer on netflix, and that the concluding movie is only available on a streaming service I don't have. I wish netflix had stepped up to actually finish one of its numerous incomplete series, and that they'd retained the streaming rights.
My final annoyance is with the Madison Public Library system. They have volumes one through six, but not seven. If I want to read the conclusion to the manga I've got to shell out $30+ dollars for the book. Oh well.
I recommend the series, though. The mystery plot in volumes one through four is really well done. The art is solid. The romantic stuff isn't my thing, but you can skim those pages.
August 10, 2024
You can tell the series is approaching its end as various long-running plot threads move towards resolution: Tanikaze's love polygon ends as he makes a choice , and Ochiai finally makes his long telegraphed move to transfer his consciousness to the second hybrid. Though, it makes no sense that he then tries to destroy Sidonia; what does he gain from that? And since his philosophy is that it is best to have a backup, wouldn't it be better to leave an army of sleeper agents (who already bear his consciousness, providing a different sort of immortality) to produce additional refinements on this goal?
Also, didn't the commander kill most of the other members of the immortal crew society a volume or two back, and then nothing of consequence happened as a result? Oh, well.
Also, I withdraw my comments from the first volume that the series seemed to try to do physics right. All the time interacting with gravity wells in this volume show the author has no idea how orbital mechanics works, or doesn't care to try.
Also, didn't the commander kill most of the other members of the immortal crew society a volume or two back, and then nothing of consequence happened as a result? Oh, well.
Also, I withdraw my comments from the first volume that the series seemed to try to do physics right. All the time interacting with gravity wells in this volume show the author has no idea how orbital mechanics works, or doesn't care to try.
July 9, 2023
Sigh...I keep reading this series but it's not getting much better.
It feels VERY repetitive at this point with recurring scenes of dialogue inside the Sidonia, a mission briefing and field fights with more and more mechs and more and more mutated Gauna.
No major questions get answered.
Interesting moral conflicts get teased but never developed (Gauna-human hybrids) and action scenes still look stellar, albeit chaotic.
If I find the seventh volume, I'll read that too, because I like the loose but dynamic art style and the terrific world building even though plot and character development are lacking...
It feels VERY repetitive at this point with recurring scenes of dialogue inside the Sidonia, a mission briefing and field fights with more and more mechs and more and more mutated Gauna.
No major questions get answered.
Interesting moral conflicts get teased but never developed (Gauna-human hybrids) and action scenes still look stellar, albeit chaotic.
If I find the seventh volume, I'll read that too, because I like the loose but dynamic art style and the terrific world building even though plot and character development are lacking...
February 21, 2023
The emotional weight of the first fight’s outcome was completely undercut by jarring rom-com antics. The rest of the volume, however, progressed the story well. The climax of the story is now in full swing. That said, I hope that the relationship between Izana and Yuhata will get greater establishment in the final volume and am interested in seeing where the story ends. I look forward to the assault on the great cluster ship and the final portrayal (and degree of humanization) of the Gaunas will be interesting to observe.
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